I'm wondering how to represent an advanced case of Overconfidence. She 'is' a very high power character, and can certainly weigh the odds correctly and decide on a rational course of action, or decide to delay a mission for, say, more suitable weather or moon phase. And she does know what her she's capable of quite well, and isn't going to go around needing make a lot of critical rolls at skill-12 or worse. The thing is, many of these rolls are not 'risky' in the sense of likely to fail, in fact they're very likely to pass, but instead they're
'risky' in that the consequences for failing are rather dire. (A messy death is a common one, or serious injury, or having just gone down wounded in front of people who are likely going to kill you, or if they capture you instead, you're pretty much going to be in no shape to escape.) So perhaps "extremely dangerous" is a better term.
The Overconfidence part is that she knows the danger and simply doesn't care or worry about it at all. She's simply thinking "of course one slip in an extremely difficult roll and I die, but that's not going to happen, I'm too good for that," although it never really gets that far unless somebody brings it up. She simply automatically assumes she's going to pull it off, and then doesn't have the slightest regard for what could happen if she doesn't. Entertaining the idea of that happening is simply not possible for her. She knows what the consequences for failure are, and she doesn't care.
The first time her whole life she ever felt any fear at all was when she was stuck in a situation where she needed to pass a couple of rolls to survive, and the odds were pretty poor, and she realized she might not be able to escape. (Stuck trying to escape underwater and she discovered that she the locks she had assumed had used simple handcuff keys were in fact using real padlocks. No easy +5 to lockpicking shaving 25 seconds off each for a very quick escape, which she had assumed would let her escape before running out of air.) She did escape, and hasn't been scared at all in the two extremely dangerous years since then.
Just background fluff for Overconfidence with Self Control 12, or something else?
'risky' in that the consequences for failing are rather dire. (A messy death is a common one, or serious injury, or having just gone down wounded in front of people who are likely going to kill you, or if they capture you instead, you're pretty much going to be in no shape to escape.) So perhaps "extremely dangerous" is a better term.
The Overconfidence part is that she knows the danger and simply doesn't care or worry about it at all. She's simply thinking "of course one slip in an extremely difficult roll and I die, but that's not going to happen, I'm too good for that," although it never really gets that far unless somebody brings it up. She simply automatically assumes she's going to pull it off, and then doesn't have the slightest regard for what could happen if she doesn't. Entertaining the idea of that happening is simply not possible for her. She knows what the consequences for failure are, and she doesn't care.
The first time her whole life she ever felt any fear at all was when she was stuck in a situation where she needed to pass a couple of rolls to survive, and the odds were pretty poor, and she realized she might not be able to escape. (Stuck trying to escape underwater and she discovered that she the locks she had assumed had used simple handcuff keys were in fact using real padlocks. No easy +5 to lockpicking shaving 25 seconds off each for a very quick escape, which she had assumed would let her escape before running out of air.) She did escape, and hasn't been scared at all in the two extremely dangerous years since then.
Just background fluff for Overconfidence with Self Control 12, or something else?
Advanced case of Overconfidence?
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